Users suspicious of shortened URLs can add /- to the end of a TweaK URL to reveal the true address, for example 5wgpt.tk/-. Dot TK officials explained that TweaK uses true 301 redirection so search ...

Responding to a wave of online scams, Microsoft said that it is fixing a flaw in its popular Internet Explorer that makes it easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed on the browser.

Canonical URLs help prevent duplicate content in search. Learn what they are, why they matter, and how to set them up correctly to protect rankings. Canonical URLs are HTML elements that tell search ...

AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack. LinkScanner, which AVG launched as a ...

In Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I’m building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list ...

Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...

Google appears to be backing away from its somewhat controversial experimental feature for the Chrome browser that hid full web addresses from users. Dubbed the Origin Chip, the new feature condenses ...

We all know the humble URL; it tells the internet where we want to go. But, as digital artist Alexander Reben discovered, it can do so much more. It turns out that entire webpages can live within its ...

URLs seem to grow longer and longer every year. Part of this is due to domain names getting longer, and a lot of it is due to SEO (search engine optimization) changes ...